Definition of Bosie

1. Noun. A cricket ball bowled as if to break one way that actually breaks in the opposite way.

Exact synonyms: Bosie Ball, Googly, Wrong 'un
Generic synonyms: Bowling

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bosie

bosches
boschvark
boschvarks
bose
bosenova
bosentan
bosey
bosh
boshbok
boshboks
boshes
boshta
boshter
boshvark
boshvarks
bosie (current term)
bosie ball
bosintang
bosk
boskage
boskages
bosker
bosket
boskets
boskier
boskiest
boskiness
boskinesses
boskopoid
bosks

Literary usage of Bosie

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Early Records of the City and County of Albany: And Colony of Resselaerswyck by Albany County (N.Y.), Jonathan Pearson, Arnold Johan Ferdinand Van Laer (1918)
"Johannes Clute to Pieter bosie and Jan van Loon [66 blank; 67]a On this tenth day of December 1678 appeared before me, Adriaen van Ilpendam, notary public ..."

2. Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum meridionalium (1878)
"... quod bosie de Vitane non possit nee debeat ab odie in antea venire ad aliquod ... dicto communi occasione doane maioris, quam dictus bosie po- suit ad ..."

3. With the Best Intention by Bruno Lessing, Hearst's International Library Co (1914)
"A policeman, sauntering along his beat, came into view, and bosie, ... And then bosie burst into laughter. "You certainly are a fresh young man," she said. ..."

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